the_dudefather wrote:
COR feels like 2 movies anyway, a normal sequel to pitch black set in a prison with deadly sunlight which was kinda cool and another movie with some weird plot about necrobummers doing mystical shit

I'll go with this, parts were great (like the prison and the surface run), but the whole necromonger story was poo and a complete departure from the gritty realism of the Riddick universe that made low budget PB so great.

I love Chronicles, there's some undoubtedly bad bits but it's the vision of a muscleman D+D nerd. Not many movies can lay claim to that. Also Twohy directed it in such a way that at least visually it felt coherent, even if the plot was a mess, and some sequences (such as the intro, arrival of the Necro's and the inferno place) were most cool. It had imagination, which is more than most big budget films do these days. And a cool soundtrack.

This should be good, as long as Diesel is reigned in by Twohy. Although you have to find some humour in the extra feature where he's marvelling at the sets like a schoolkid.

The directors cut is a lot better. Its a weird one, though. Despite the critical panning it got, you dont find many people who really dislike it. To be honest, the only thing I dont really like about it is the amount of time they spend fuckarsing around in jail.

I do love Riddick, enough for it to be borderline gay. Not Vin Diesel, but Riddick is awesome, and I'd like to see him again in any form.

I'm not sure where they'd go with the sequel though, Riddick is a mass murderer with power, but at the same time he's actually found things to care about. He'll probably fancy a go at the Underverse though.